Cheshire squirrels away home victory

Record-Journal staff

CHESHIRE Their home opener was a long time in coming, but the Cheshire track and field teams savored the delayed gratification.

Hosting Sheehan and West Haven in a SCC double-dual Wednesday, April 26 the Rams swept both meets. The boys raced past Sheehan, 85-65, and West Haven, 8961. For the girls, it was 83-67 over Sheehan and 96-53 over West Haven.

The Lady Titans salvaged their day beating the Westies 93½-55½. No such luck for the Sheehan boys. They were edged 74-69 by the Blue Devils.

Individually, the meet belonged to Molly “Squirrel” Lanz. The Cheshire junior won four events, sweeping the sprints and hurdles. Roll it: 13.2 seconds in the 100, 26.7 in the 200, 15.9 in the 100 hurdles and a personalbest 46.6 in the 300 hurdles.

Distance runner Alexis Ciccone was also a double-winner for Cheshire. The junior All-Stater clocked personal bests in the 1,600 at 5:05.7, then won the 3,200 in 11:36.2.

Also for the Lady Rams, Leah Farrell (400, 1:01.5) and Mia Vientos (800, 2:26.7) won individual events and combined with Julia Rubin on a pair of firstplace relays.

The trio teamed with Samantha Mudry on the 4x400 (4:15.3) and with Emily Iona D’soza on the 4x800 (10:52.6).

The Cheshire boys likewise used their prowess on the track to accomplish a sweep. They were paced by senior hurdler Luca Borz-Baba, a double-winner in the 110 highs (18.9) and 300 intermediates (47.4).

Also for CHS, James Ferraro won the 400 in 54 seconds and Daniel D’Souza broke the tape in 10:31.5 in the 3,200 after teaming with James Boyd and Michael DeJoseph to capture the 4x800 (8:38.5).

The host Rams sealed their sweep of Sheehan and West Haven behind discus throwers Alexander Kailan (110-1) and Kaithlyn Cannon (84-8) and shot-putter Nicole Emede (29-0).